The nature of anarchism (Lefty Despair etc.)

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Tue Oct 1 08:01:47 PDT 2002


catherine.driscoll at adelaide.edu.au wrote:


>Well this depends on what you actually mean by "differences". If you
>mean social differences -- in the conflicts of interest sense -- I
>think there's a valid argument that differences between men and
>women are class differences. That is, in the sense that we actually
>use the term "class" today, which is in a more general sense
>descriptive of "economic" inequalities rather than class in Marx's
>more specific sense.

Sex also has a lot to do with one's access to property and role in the social division of labor - more traditional Marxian markers of class.

Doug



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